An optic (not to be confused with optics, the science of light) is a colloquial abbreviation of optical instrument, a device that changes the behavior or properties of light. A Fresnel lens, used in lighthouses, is a type of optic.

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Optic may also refer to:

• Optic, an alcoholic spirits measure, a device for dispensing fixed amounts of alcoholic spirits
• Optic, a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
• OpTic Gaming, an American esports organization

OPTIC can refer to :

• Optimized Protocol for Transport of Images to Clients used by iCentrix's MarioNet split web browser
• OPTICS algorithm, an unsupervised learning clustering algorithm

Optics can refer to:

• In Public relations, a neologistic term for the way something will be perceived
• In computer science, optics are a general class of bidirectional transformations

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